Improvement in carriage-curtain fastenings



'F. B-AU'MGARTNER.

Carriage Curtain-Fastenings.

, No. 145,328. Patented DBC.9,1873.

OO O O 06 OO O Q 00 UNITED STATES FREDERICK BAUMGARTNER,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENTJN CARRIAGE-CURTAIN FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,328., dated December 9, 1873; application filed August 9, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK BAUMGART- NER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Carriage-Curtain Fastening; and I do hereby'declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification.

The object of my present invention is to produce a secure, easily-operated, and reliable fastening for carriage-curtains, without cut ting a button-hole through the curtain.

The invention consists in the combination, with the'ordinary round-headed or any suitable carriage-curtain knob, of a metallic plate, to be secured to the under side of the curtain, preferably, by a pointed ring placed on the face or outside. of the curtain, the point of such ring being passed through the curtain and bent over on the button-hole plate to hold the latter securelyin place, there being no nocessity for cutting the usual slit through the leather or canvas to allow the head of the knob to project through, the button-hole being complete without any such slit.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a view showing the outside of a carriage-curtain fastened by my improved fastening. Fig. 2 is a similar view, with one corner of the cur tain turned over to display the button-hole plate, and the preferred mode of fastening the same to the curtain. Fig. 3 is a transverse the metallic button-hole plate, which is, preferably, provided with a square hole, though holes of other shapes adapted to the style of knob used may be employed. The plateis shown as provided with slots 1) b, for purposes to be presently mentioned. E designates a metal ring, provided with points a a. This ring is placed on the outside of the curtain, directly opposite the button-hole plate D, and the points a a are thrust through the curtain and passed through the slots or holes I) b of the button-hole plate, and bent down upon the said plate in a well-known manner, as will be understood by reference to Fig. 2.

The metallic button-hole plate is, prefera= bly, so placed and secured on the curtain that one corner of the square hole in it shall point toward the knob, in which case the head of the knob can pass through the hole edge= wise, and the hole need only be large enough to give a measurement from one corner to a diagonally opposite corner a little greater than the transverse diameter of the head of.

the knob, as is obvious; hence certain particular but easy manipulations are-necessary to efl'cct the fastening, and the same mani r ulations reversed are necessary to accom= plish the unfastening; therefore there is little liability of the metallic button-hole being dis= engaged, by the wind or designedly, from the knob.

The plate I), with the square button-hole in it, may be fastened to the under side of the curtain by sewing or riveting, in which case the ring E might be dispensed with, or a disk, preferably a concavo-convex disk, may be employed; but I prefer the ring E, because it confines a small area of the curtain in such manner that the said confined por tion, on being stretched, forms a tight pocket or socket for the head of the knob, as will be seen by reference to Fig. 3, and there is less liability of any accidental unfastening of the curtain, and, besides, these rings serve as ornaments on the curtain.

My present improved carriage-curtain fast= ening can be easily manipulated, is secure, efficient in all respects, and can be cheaply made and applied, and furnishes something quite different from the ordinary run of car riage-curtain fastenings, inasmuch as a pen feet button-hole is produced without cutting a slit through the curtain for the knob to pro ject through, and, at the same time, without ring E, so as to form, with the curtain, a any raised appliance being secured to the outpocket for the head of a knob, G, with which side of the curtain. it is to he used, substantially as described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to FREDK. BAUMGARTNER. secure by Letters Patent, is- \Vitnesses:

The buttonhole plate D, designed and M. M. LIVINGSTON, adapted to he secured to the curtain by the T. B. BEECHER. 

